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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 1 Jan 2008 17:16:56
Message: <477abbd8$1@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
> Non-responsive answer: Kate  (KDE text editor), a linux app, works wonderfully--
> if your file ends in .pov it even does the color coding for you in the way that
> WinPov does!

It's what I tend to use on Linux, and it seems to work moderately well. 
(Certainly far better than that Notepad joke.) It even seems to [badly] 
colour code Haskell source code, which is interesting.

I bet you can't run that on Windoze though...

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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 1 Jan 2008 17:18:04
Message: <477abc1c$1@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know,
>> Notepad sucks.
> 
> It can suck? I tought it's *totally* useless :O

"The only time Micro$oft will make something that doesn't suck, they'll 
be making vacuum cleaners."

(BTW, I keep waiting for Apple to make a vacuum cleaner. They could call 
it "iSuck"...)

>> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on
>> Windoze?
> 
> http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html

Vi? :-S

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 1 Jan 2008 21:05:00
Message: <web.477af065af0f26ec118f017e0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
> > Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >
> > Non-responsive answer: Kate  (KDE text editor), a linux app, works wonderfully--
> > if your file ends in .pov it even does the color coding for you in the way that
> > WinPov does!
>
> It's what I tend to use on Linux, and it seems to work moderately well.
> (Certainly far better than that Notepad joke.) It even seems to [badly]
> colour code Haskell source code, which is interesting.
>
> I bet you can't run that on Windoze though...

you can.  then, you just need the whole KDE bang for that matter... :)

it's like java where every tiny app requires you to download and install a
redundant OS on top of yours native...


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 1 Jan 2008 23:46:11
Message: <477b1713@news.povray.org>
"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:477abc1c$1@news.povray.org...

> "The only time Micro$oft will make something that doesn't suck, they'll
> be making vacuum cleaners."

Some very fun games have come out of MS Game studios over the years.
Freelancer, Age of Empires.
I'm also going to defend their database server, for obvious reasons

> (BTW, I keep waiting for Apple to make a vacuum cleaner. They could call
> it "iSuck"...)

I find Apple's naming very funny. Putting an 'i' infront of a noun makes it
sound Zulu me.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 10:35:00
Message: <web.477baef7af0f26ec773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> Some very fun games have come out of MS Game studios over the years.
> Freelancer, Age of Empires.

of course you know MS Game Studios is nothing but a bunch of top 3rd party
developers bought/assimilated by MS in typical monopolist practice, don't you?
I myself am very fond of Rareware...


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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 11:22:58
Message: <477bba62$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 
> "The only time Micro$oft will make something that doesn't suck, they'll
> be making vacuum cleaners."

If it sucks, it also blows. If it sucks and blows, it can be used either
as a vacuum cleaner or a fan :P.

> (BTW, I keep waiting for Apple to make a vacuum cleaner. They could call
> it "iSuck"...)

Hmm... Not bad :D.

>> http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html
> 
> Vi? :-S

Yes, but with graphical menus. It's easy to use for even entry-level
user (easier than notepad, since WinVI won't broke charsets etc) and
still has most of Vim's power for advanced user (regexps etc).
Seriously, it's lightweight, easy and good.

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From: Ross
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 11:52:17
Message: <477bc141$1@news.povray.org>
"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:477908f6$1@news.povray.org...
>I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know, 
>Notepad sucks.
>
> Then I started using SciTE to write everything. It's available on Windoze 
> and Linux, and works quite nicely. Only real program is that it's a 
> nightmare to configure it properly. You have to edit a 400-line 
> configuration file, and most of the options are quite poorly documented.
>
> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on 
> Windoze?
>
> NB. "Emacs" is an operating system, not a text editor. :-P
>

Emacs.

it's not an operating system.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 12:07:46
Message: <477bc4e2$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> of course you know MS Game Studios is nothing but a bunch of top 3rd party
> developers bought/assimilated by MS in typical monopolist practice, don't you?

That's how most big companies work.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 13:09:20
Message: <477bd350$1@news.povray.org>
>> I bet you can't run that on Windoze though...
> 
> you can.  then, you just need the whole KDE bang for that matter... :)

I'd be surprised if you can run KDE on Windoze. [Although not *that* 
surprised...]

> it's like java where every tiny app requires you to download and install a
> redundant OS on top of yours native...

LOL! Something like that. (Ever tried .NET?)

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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Text editors
Date: 2 Jan 2008 13:36:41
Message: <477bd9b9@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> you can.  then, you just need the whole KDE bang for that matter... :)
> 
> it's like java where every tiny app requires you to download and install a
> redundant OS on top of yours native...

	On Gentoo, they have split packages for each KDE app. You still need
kdelibs, but you no longer have to install all of KDE Network to get one
network app.

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